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STATION INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR.1. |920.

Patented May 10, 1921.

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STATION INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED APH. I, i920.

Patented May 10, 1921.

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To all whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, MICHAL SZOZYGIEL, a citizen of Poland, residing at Fall River, county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stationlndicators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates Vto station indicators for trainsr or street cars adapted to indicate the succeeding station at which the train or car stops.V

The invention has for an object to provide a novel varrangement for a device of this kind whereby the giving of the starting signal by the conductor when the train is leav-V ing one station causes the name of the following Station to be immediately indicated.

For 'further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference Will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are moreV particularly set forth.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side view of a car having my improved station indicator applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the indicator with the cover of the casing or box removed.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a face view of the indicator with the cover plate in place.

As here shown my improved station indicator comprises a box or casing 9 adapted to be mounted on the end wall of the car as indicated in Fig. 1 Where the car is shown generally at 10, and having a removable face-plate or cover 11 formed with an elongated openingy 12 through which the different station names are visible oneat a time as they are successively advanced to juxtaposition therewith. This box is di-V vided longitudinally by a transverse partition 13 located toward one end of the box.

Journaled at opposite ends in this partition and the far end of the box are a pair of vertically spaced horizontal Shafts 14 and 15 upon which are fixed a pair of winding drums 16 and 17 adapted to have a web or sheet 18 bearing station names such as 19, these shafts extending through the partition 13 and having reversing clutch devices mounted on their ends. To this end these Speciication of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1o, 192i.

Application filed April 1, 1920. Serial No. 370,596.

shafts have clutch sleeves 2O and 21 feathered thereon and adapted to engage clutch hubs 22 and v23 rigid on gears 24 and 25 loose on the respective shafts 14 and 15.

The clutch sleeves 20 and 21 vare adapted to be shifted inversely in unison by means of a lever 26 fulcrumed between its endson a fixed horizontal shaft 27 supported at opposite ends in the partition 13 and adjacent endwall of the box. Upon this shaft 27 is loosely Vmounted a gear 28 having a ratchet wheel 29 fixed to'one side thereof which is engaged by a pawl 30 fixed to a pulley 31 also loose on the shaft 27. The

lower endof the lever 26 may be locked in position with either of the clutch sleeves 20,

21 operatively engaged byk means of a latch. 32 on the lower end of the lever, which projects through the rbottom of the box, this latch engaging in either one of a pair of notches 33 in idle box bottom.

' The pulley has fixed thereon the upper end of a rope or Wire 36 which extends down-` wardly through a suitable opening in the bottom of the box and is provided with a suitable handle, here shown as a ring 37, on its lower end. Fixed upon the pulley 36 is an eccentric pin 38 which is adapted, when the pulley is rotated by pulling on the cord 36, to strike the inner end of a lever 39 fulcrumed in the endwall of the box as at 40 and projecting through a suitable openin in the said end wall, this lever having a ell hammer or clapper 41 on its outer end which is adapted to strike a bell 42 mounted on the outside of the box above and adjacent the lever 39, a spring 43 returning the pulley to its original position.

To provide for proper advancing and po- Sitioningof the web or Sheet 18 with respect to the opening 12 in the face plate 11 of the box 9 a series of four rollers are mounted in the box over which the web is led, these rollers extending parallel to the shafts 14 and 15 and being journaled at opposite endsV in the partition 13 and opposed end wall. These rollers are numbered 45, 46, 47, and 48 respectively and are located in the corners of the box as shown clearly in Fig. 4. The web 18 is led from the under side of the upper winding drum 16 rearwardly over the upper rear roller 46, then downwardly adjacent the rear wall of the box and under the lower rear roller 48, then diagonally upwardly over the upper front roller 45, then downwardly adjacent the face-plate 11 and i past the opening 12 therein, under the lower front roller 47 and inally rearwardly under the lower winding drum 17 to which it is attached.

It will be apparent that when lever 26 is moved to secure the top shaft 14 to its driving gear 24 the pulling of the cord 36 in addition t0 causing the pin 38 to strikey the lever 39 and ring the bell to give the starting signal, will cause, through Athe engagement of gears 2d and 2S, the winding drum 1G to be rotated and the web advanced.

Similarly, when the lever 26 is moved in the opposite direction', when the car reaches the end of its run and starts backward, the pulling oli the cord 36 will rotate the lower drum 17, the web 18 being advanced step by step in an opposite direction. When the cord 36 is released the spring rotates the pulley backward, the pawl 30 riding freely-over the ratchet wheel 29 during this movement of the pulley.

Having thus described my invention what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows* i A device of the class described comprising a casing having two compartments therein, a druni mounted horizontally in the upper portion of said casing, a second drum similarly Lmounted in the lower portion thereof, sha-tts extending from each ot' said drums, said drums 'lying in the first of said compartments, the shafts thereof extending into the secondoi' saidcompartments, a gear on cach of said shafts in said second compartment, a shaft mounted between said firstnamed shafts and having a gear in mesh with both of said first-named gears, each of said first-named gears having a rigid sleeve having serrationsonone side thereof, each of said first-named shafts having slidable sleeves having serrations adapted to engage said first-named serrated serrations, springs normally urging said slidable sleeves toward said rigid sleeves, a lever pivotally mounted in said last-named shaft, said lever having engagement with each of said slidable sleeves, means for locking said lever in its estreme positions, a pulley loosely mounted on said last-named shaft,a pawl pivoted to ysaid pulley, a ratchet wheel rigid with said last-named gear and in engagement with said pawl, a pin protruding from the side of lsaid pulley, a spring having one end attached to said pin and the other to said casing, a gong on said casing, a. hammer adapted to strike said gong, said hammer being pivoted in said casing and lying in the path of said pin, ,a cord attached to said pulley, and a web adapted to be wound about said drums.

ln testimony vwhereof l have ailixed my signature.

MICHAL SZCZYGIEL. 

